After Seattlest arrived at the office today, saw all of these big white trailers across the street, and had our little "Well, this is unusual" moment of tilted equilibrium, we got curious. Is this another episode of our friendly German invasion of last August? Not so, apparently. We asked the security guard in our lobby if he knew what was up. He said, "They're going to shoot a movie today." Then he smiled and said,......

On this Valentine's Day, we also take the time to honor the kind of love that exists between two straight dudes -- the primarily heterosexual feelings that a man has for his BFF. Exhibit A: Stan and Kyle. Exhibit B: Jay and Silent Bob. Exhibit C: Matt and Ben, the celebrity spoof of the relationship between Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, focusing on the period right before they became famous (i.e., the making of......

Pecos Pit BBQ is so fucking good it still smells great after sitting in the office garbage can for three hours. Pecos Pit is like the best cocaine in town, you’re willing to drive way out of your way to get it and you won’t balk for a second at the fact there are no accommodations or cute amenities to make the experience feel more complete. There are maybe five things on the menu.......

Coming home from work on the bus last night, we got to thinking about how even getting to vote on a light-rail package this year is going to be an uphill fight. The dire prospects for light rail anytime soon pushed us to extrapolate the costs to our psyche of waiting during the ride home. First we had to run a few blocks in the rain to catch the 8. While admittedly, we should have......

Generally after the warm, fuzzy glow of our New Year's hangover wears off, Seattlest is left staring into the abyss of January without much to cling to, except our quickly fading memories of the resolutions we made and the knowledge that tax season is fast approaching. This year we're filing as a newly married, first-time independent contractor who bought a home last year and we're mighty worried. We liked the 1040-EZ we'd grab while dropping......

With all of the people that live/work on the Eastside, it is really surprising to not find more beer spots to explore. Granted, we probably haven't found everything worth visiting, but it just seems there is plenty of room for more good beer on the Eastside. Below is a summary of what you can enjoy on the other side of the lake. Breweries: Rock Bottom Bellevue is about the only place if you want......

As an alumnus of Centralia Community College (out of boredom, we took a Latin class there one fall) and former southwest Washington resident, we've been following the flooding thataway with interest. A friend of ours just passed along two emails from K. in Centralia, and they can't be beat for a you-are-there feel that balances some of the apocalyptic news coverage -- let's face it, if nothing terrible happened to you, you aren't news. On......

Tonight, the nation's hardcore gamblers' eyes will be on Seattle as our fair burgh hosts Monday Night Football. The Hawks' opponent is the San Francisco 49ers, the team that was everyone's trendy pick to be a darkhorse contender in the NFC, with the eminently predictable result that they've started 2-6. Here's how ESPN's The Sports Guy saw it in his season preview:Call it the Winston Wolf "Let's Not Start Sucking Each Other's Popsicles Yet"......

Someone just forwarded Seattlest the coolest Washington State ferry pictures of all time saying they were embedded in an email going around the office. We'll paste them all below, in order and with the authors commentary intact. If you took these or if you know of a place online where we can link to these, please email Seattlest. [UPDATE: We've been directed to the Bitter End blog, although he didn't take them either. Ross Fotheringham......

CHS had the news last night, and then Metblogs posted before us, too, so to make up for our tardiness, we visited the Office Nomads site, chatted with cofounder Jacob, and took pictures. They just signed a 3-year lease the beginning of this month, and are in full prep-mode before their opening on November 1. (Open House 6pm-9pm.) The new Office Nomads offices are located in the old Heath Printers building on Boylston, the block......

Seattlest's favorite crime (just edging Identity Theft) strikes again, this time in one of Seattlest's favorite places. A copper theft at Snoqualmie Pass temporarily disabled highway signs and safety lighting, which had to suck for people navigating the pass in the middle of the night. Don't mistake the fact that copper theft is Seattlest's favorite crime with Seattlest being in favor of the crime. It's bad and dangerous and taxpayers lose. Why is it our......

The run of Intiman's To Kill a Mockingbird has been extended a second time, and it'll now run through November 10. Tickets are $27-$50. We enjoyed it more than the movie with Gregory Peck, we'll tell you that right off. Since it's part of Intiman's American Cycle -- with its helpful narrator, Mockingbird can feel like Our Town II -- the Intiman has a host of related events planned. We're intrigued by the Open Minds/Open......

Is the office slightly quieter today? Were there fewer parents dropping the little ones off at school this morning? Were there a lot more parked cars in certain spots around Wedgwood, Seward Park or Mercer Island? If so, then you noticed Seattle's very low-key signs that Rosh Hashanah or the Jewish New Year is here. Growing up Jewish in New York City, we're always a little surprised when the New Year rolls around in Seattle......

We're living in the town that Microsoft Office built, and all in all it's not too shabby. Every once in a while we're struck by something and think, "wow, someone paid upwards of $300 for a graphical representation of a talking paper clip and we used the money to build this..." But generally it's been a pretty good deal for Seattle. Time marches on, though, and what was once the raison d'etre for personal computers......

Seattlest doesn't have burning convictions about the lottery. We tend to think people who buy multiple tickets per week are, um, not utilizing their money as effectively as possible. But we don't bother chiding them, mostly because -- we confess -- we've bought the occasional lottery ticket. Fewer than 10 tickets in our adult life, but still, we're not pure. And we think it was worth it. The mild anticipation, the "what if?" conversations,......

Or you could get your ass FIRED! Just ask our old pal/arch nemesis/best livejournal trainwreck on the internet the Bicycle Hobo(TM), who just got let go from his job at the Times for visiting Fleshbot.com [evidently NSFW] while ostensibly "working." From the hobo's blog: I could have gotten drunk at work, groped a coworker and peed in the corner of the building, and I would have gotten a warning, but a little ass & tickle......

Pike Place Market’s very public Centennial Celebration wraps up this Friday, the 100th anniversary of its onion-borne existence. As with any freshly-minted centenarian, the Market will dawdle obliviously amid the avid attention of family, friends, and Willard Scott the press. To commemorate the milestone, there will be stage performances, special presentations and, as we noted earlier this week, other activities taking place from 9am on. But the candles won’t truly be lit until around......

Despite the fact that we take the bus from North Seattle to Downtown and avoid completely the I-5 work that's being done, the TV and newspapers had us prepared for the worst. We spent the weekend hiding caches of water and ammo at various safehouses along our commute route, and packed a NOAA weather radio, our Garmin handheld and some flares into our laptop bag this morning, such was the urgency of the pending doom.......

We spotted Jim from The Office--real name: John Krasinski--having drinks at the Crocodile Friday night with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie (who Seattlest Jack chatted with last week). Messrs Krasinski and Gibbard commandeered a booth in the back along with a retinue of dudes and girls. Outside, we saw Krasinski very patiently and very politely agreeing to appear in photos with various Croc patrons. One mid-30s skater dude announced that his was "goin'......

--iTunes just passed Amazon to become the third-largest music seller. --It's like a contest now: Who can be the next to get a body part trapped in something and then cut that body part off with a pocket knife to miraculously survive. Stay tuned for the photo set of Seattlest getting our head wedged between two rocks during a flood tide. --Tacoma is mobilizing for war on Clear Channel Billboards. --Where does our energy......

This week's Comment of the Week was posted as a reply to a post about an immigration announcement out of the office of Mayor Greg Nickels and uses the word "homo" six times, including such creative constructions as "homo liberals," "homo culture," and "liberal homos." Funny how homo liberals, choose not to see the real enemy in North America and they opt for hating America. Mexico has no culture except being forced into the Catholic......

Yesterday Seattlest broke out of the office at noon, grabbed a Tats'trami and headed to Occidental Square. There's nothing like passing a short hour with a book and a gut bomb in a square... Actually, had a book along, but it was only cover for our real mission which was to watch all the little people go about their little lives and they happily obliged by showing up and staring back at us. What?......

Via True Hoop, the News Tribune's Frank Hughes reports today that the Sonics' organization is "enveloped by a cloud of paranoia, mistrust, distrust and, now, anger." The lowlights: --Clay Bennett fired Bob Hill just two hours after Hill returned home from having hernia surgery. --Bennett didn't have a news conference to announce the firings because he's "mad at the media." --Bennett believes he was misled about the Sonics' chance of getting an arena--that then-CEO......

Notes from a day when even Iranians are probably paying more attention to Blake Lewis than to Dick Cheney. --Mario Batali is terrorizing New York on his scooter. --The folks in this meeting at KIRO hq probably wondered if they'd been transported to the set of The Office. --Conference or no conference, Seattle U's going D1 again. Hoorah! --When you're a wanted bank robber, cardboard-sign-at-a-busy-intersection beggar is just too high-profile a side job. --Stop annoying......

Last year's immigrant rights protest was out of character with the well-publicized, poorly-attended quick hitter marches that seem to be de rigueur in Seattle currently. Thirty thousand people came out for that one and snaked through the streets of Downtown for hours. Yesterday afternoon we left the office a few minutes early to try and track down the 2007 version and after chasing 5th all the way back to Westlake Center and coming up empty......

We're having a hard time deciding if this has any actual value or not, but it's certainly interesting to look at for twenty seconds or so. Sadly, we can really see it coming into play when we're trying to psychosomatic ourselves out of a meeting or something and into a day of bad TV, reading and trying (and failing) to play Wii golf from the couch. Is that my neighbor there with a runny......

We are looking forward to seeing Dan Zanes & Friends at The Moore this Saturday with our two-year-old daughter. To get ready for the show, Seattlest spoke with Dan via telephone today about music, kids, and kid's music. We were big fans of his 80's band, the Del Fuegos, when we were in high school and are even bigger fans of his new "all ages" homespun folk-fun-rock. There’s been a lot going on with......

Hot damn, it’s nice out there. Seattlest just got back to the office after a long-but-too-short lunch break. There we were, reading a book in the sun down at the waterfront park, near the Aquarium – lifting our head every so often to peer out at the ferries making their way in and out of Elliott Bay. And the Olympic Mountains, of course, reminding us that it’s just about time to dust off our......

No Dawgs in the tourney this year and no Seattlest bracket to fill out, but apparently they're going to play the thing anyway and we're inviting you to avoid the office for as long as possible with us on Friday at Spitfire. Come first thing in the morning. Come for a long lunch (I'll probably do this). Skip out early and show up at 3 (or this). We'll be there, or, at least Seattlest Seth......

Windermere Real Estate/Kingston, a Windermere branch in Kitsap County, doesn't think you would. A couple of weeks ago, they fired local burlesque performer Ravenna Black because she spends the occasional evening taking off her clothes to the strains of "Keep On Churnin' Til the Butter Comes." On Monday my broker called me up to ask me, "Are you Ravenna Black?" When I said that I was, he told me that was "incongruous with the......